1415 Hrs GMT
London
Monday
08 November 2010
Editor © Muhammad Haque
BHANGEELAAR! Telling Media Guardian [online] of how the "East End Lies" has been showing contempt to ordinary people in Tower Hamlets
This comes just over a week after the local “East London Advertiser” ran a composite piece based on Muhammd Haque’s latest diagnostic comments on the anti-democratic role being played by Tower Hamlets Council clique-promoting propaganda outfit the “East End Lies”.
[The MEDIA GUARDIAN piece is accessible by following the link above. We are also publishing the web link to Media Guardian at our twitter account http://twitter.com/notomayor.]
Your readers may like to know the fact that in September 2000, just over ten years ago, the phrase “East End Lies” was used for the first time in pubic at a meeting actually held in the “Council Chamber” at “Mulberry Pace” 5 Clove Crescent, London E14 2BG by Muhammad Haque who is now organising Bhangeelaar! The CAMPAIGN AGAINST AN ELECTED MAYOR IN TOWER HAMLETS.
Two members of the community immediately approached Haque – both are now former mayors [in the ordinary sense of that word ‘mayor’] of Tower Hamlets Council. Both of them completely agreed with Haque’s analysis that had preceded his description of the internal Council Pravda as the “East End Lies”.
Your reference now to Lutfur Rahman’s stated view confirms once again that we need the local Council to be democratically run. As you don’t name the [presumed Tower Hamlets Council-linked] source for the view you ascribe to Lutfur Rahman, it is not possible to diagnose their democratic impediment in more precise terms.
It goes without saying that the “East End Lies” is not communicating the truth to the ordinary people in the Borough of Tower Hamlets.
If it were then the outfit would reflect the existence of the ordinary people in its pages, in its ‘news’ ‘features and in its editorial content.
No Pravda as tainted by decades of association in the former USSR could tell the truth.
Any objective truthful study of the “East End Lies” over the past fifteen years will show the outfit to be the affront to objectivity, transparency, accountability, democracy, community and local journalism that it has been. We are currently conducting an updater consultation within the community on the role not only of the “East End Lies” but also of a number of ethnicity linked satellite TV outlets that have in effect become in the most recent years the Pravda channels at the expense of the universally understood and objectively desirable democratic rights of ordinary people in the Borough of Tower Hamlets.
We are at this stage preparing our 'submission' to both the UK Central Government [in the Department now fronted by Eric Pickles] and for the consideration in all the live languages including English in the community for the people to comment on and take forward.
No Secretary of State has EVER held office that can speak the truth for the ordinary people in the way that the ordinary people can and will. Mr Pickles is no exception to that.
Only the people can.
We the ordinary community in Tower Hamlets are the true alternatives to the Council Pravda in our borough.
Others in similarly democracy-denied areas should think about organising their own communities to assert the right to know the truth and in the context of the Pravdas also to exercise the right to tell the truth to our fellow ‘citizens’ and members of our respective communities.
This is a tradition that in Tower Hamlets goes back to the genuinely democratic action by the [Poplar] councillors in the 1920s that were active along side with the people.
Their legacy has been treated with contempt in the main practice by the “East End Lies” which has been showing disrespect to ordinary people and the very important campaigns that have been going on in the community for the defence of the democratic say and for the defence of basic rights including health, environment, housing and human rights. Not a word of those campaigns has been allowed in by the contemptuous ‘Editor’ and her ‘professional’ staff at the “East End Lies”.
1355 Hrs Monday 08 November 2010
BHANGEELAAR! The CAMPAIGN AGAINST AN ELECTED MAYOR IN TOWER HAMLETS
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